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"Has he escaped?" asked the thief-taker, faintly. "Blueskin," said Ireton. "No Sheppard?" rejoined Wild. "No, no, Sir," replied Ireton. "He's here." "That's right," replied Wild, with a ghastly smile. "Remove him to the Middle Stone Hold, watch over him night and day, do you mind?" "I do, Sir." "Irons heavy irons night and day." "Depend upon it, Sir."
The Baron having also retired to give some necessary directions, Waverley seized the opportunity to ask, whether this Fergus, with the unpronounceable name, was the chief thief-taker of the district?
"Spare him!" cried Mrs, Sheppard, who fancied she had made some impression on the obdurate breast of the thief-taker, "spare him! and I will forgive you, will thank you, bless you. Spare him! spare him!" "On one condition I will spare him," returned Wild; "on one condition only." "What is it?" asked the poor woman. "Either he or you must return with me," answered Jonathan.
"I was not asked by them" again it is Moore who speaks "if I was in want of anything, but was told that if I wanted to make some money they could put me on to a good bank job where I could make a million." And, if we may believe the historians, Moore's experience is not singular. The truth is, the thief-taker still flourishes in America.
"Sir!" cried the landlord, bristling up. The little man pulled out a brace of pistols, and very quietly began priming them out of a small powder-flask. The landlord started back; the head-waiter cried "Rape!" and the barmaid "Murder!" "Who the devil are you, sir?" cried the landlord. "Mr. Tickletrout! the celebrated officer, thief-taker, as they call it. Have a care, ma'am, the pistols are loaded.
Advancing with a slow firm step to the stone-block he placed his left foot upon it, drew himself up to his full height, and fixed a look so stern upon Jonathan, that the thief-taker quailed before it. The black, meantime, began to ply his hammer, and speedily unriveted the chains. The first stroke appeared to arouse all the vindictive passions of Jonathan.
The Baron having also retired to give some necessary directions, Waverley seized the opportunity to ask, whether this Fergus, with the unpronounceable name, was the chief thief-taker of the district.
"I need not remind you, Sir Rowland," replied Wild, "that you had two sisters Aliva and Constance." "Both are dead," observed the knight, gloomily. "Not so;" answered Wild. "Constance is yet living." "Constance alive? Impossible!" ejaculated Trenchard. "I've proofs to the contrary," replied Jonathan. "If this is the case, where is she?" "In Bedlam," replied the thief-taker, with a Satanic grin.
This lady was singularly lucky in her matrimonial connections. She had been married four times: three of her husbands died of hempen fevers; and the fourth, having been twice condemned, was saved from the noose by Jonathan Wild, who not only managed to bring him off, but to obtain for him the situation of under-turnkey in Newgate. On the appearance of the thief-taker, Mrs.
And thus we see the policy of a mean and scandalous thief-taker, conducted with as much prudence, caution, and necessary courage, as the measures taken by even the greatest persons upon earth; nor perhaps is there, in all history, an instance of a man who thus openly dallied with the laws, and played with capital punishment.
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